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Nearly 60,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War, [9] and 3,417 of them were from Texas. [10] At a reading of the names of fallen veterans held in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium at the LBJ Library, newspaper reporter and Vietnam war correspondent Joe Galloway explained the purpose of the Texas Vietnam Veterans Monument is to "encourage hometowns across America to go all out to welcome Vietnam ...
Created by Vietnam and All Veterans of Brevard, Inc, The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall is a 3 ⁄ 5 scale of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and is almost 300 feet (91 m) long and 6 feet (1.8 m) tall at the center. Created by Dignity Memorial, the Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall is 3 ⁄ 4 scale of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Vietnam War Memorial, in Houston Texas [5] Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Park, Museum of Flight, Seattle; Vietnam Veterans of Oregon Memorial, Portland, Oregon [6] The Vietnam Wall of Southwest Florida, in Punta Gorda, FL [7] Vietnam War Memorial (Milwaukie, Oregon) The Vietnam War Memorial, in Westminster, CA [8] Vietnam Veterans Replica Wall ...
An interpretive text to the left of the panel tells part of the memorial's story: "Dedicated on Nov. 13, 1983, the V-shaped monument lists more than 58,000 names of Americans who were killed or ...
Now, a veterans group is planning to build a 6 1/2-foot-high black granite monument dedicated to the 23 Harlingen soldiers killed during the war from 1961 to 1975. As part of the project, city ...
Joe Dzurinda, a 1969-1970 veteran of the Vietnam War and member of the Grafton VFW post, said, "It brings back a lot of memories" from visiting the wall in Washington D.C. and looking up the names ...
On March 29, 1973, the last soldiers from the United States left Vietnam. Pink Floyd’s album, “Dark Side of the Moon,” was released that year, Roe vs Wade was decided by the U.S. Supreme ...
The Vietnam Memorial is installed at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Dedicated on April 19, 2008, the grey and black granite monument has a bronze sculpture on top and commemorates Texas veterans of the Vietnam War.